user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/trace_events.h, branch v5.15.3

Merge tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2021-09-05T18:50:41Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - simplify the Kconfig use of FTRACE and TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT - bootconfig can now start histograms - bootconfig supports group/all enabling - histograms now can put values in linear size buckets - execnames can be passed to synthetic events - introduce "event probes" that attach to other events and can retrieve data from pointers of fields, or record fields as different types (a pointer to a string as a string instead of just a hex number) - various fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (35 commits) tracing/doc: Fix table format in histogram code selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing duplicate eprobes and kprobes selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing eprobe events on synthetic events selftests/ftrace: Add test case to test adding and removing of event probe selftests/ftrace: Fix requirement check of README file selftests/ftrace: Add clear_dynamic_events() to test cases tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events tracing/probes: Reject events which have the same name of existing one tracing/probes: Have process_fetch_insn() take a void * instead of pt_regs tracing/probe: Change traceprobe_set_print_fmt() to take a type tracing/probes: Use struct_size() instead of defining custom macros tracing/probes: Allow for dot delimiter as well as slash for system names tracing/probe: Have traceprobe_parse_probe_arg() take a const arg tracing: Have dynamic events have a ref counter tracing: Add DYNAMIC flag for dynamic events tracing: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions. MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for os noise/latency tracepoint: Fix kerneldoc comments bootconfig/tracing/ktest: Update ktest example for boot-time tracing tools/bootconfig: Use per-group/all enable option in ftrace2bconf script ...

tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events

2021-08-20T18:18:40Z

A new dynamic event is introduced: event probe. The event is attached to an existing tracepoint and uses its fields as arguments. The user can specify custom format string of the new event, select what tracepoint arguments will be printed and how to print them. An event probe is created by writing configuration string in 'dynamic_events' ftrace file: e[:[SNAME/]ENAME] SYSTEM/EVENT [FETCHARGS] - Set an event probe -:SNAME/ENAME - Delete an event probe Where: SNAME - System name, if omitted 'eprobes' is used. ENAME - Name of the new event in SNAME, if omitted the SYSTEM_EVENT is used. SYSTEM - Name of the system, where the tracepoint is defined, mandatory. EVENT - Name of the tracepoint event in SYSTEM, mandatory. FETCHARGS - Arguments: =$[:TYPE] - Fetch given filed of the tracepoint and print it as given TYPE with given name. Supported types are: (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), basic type (x8/x16/x32/x64), hexadecimal types "string", "ustring" and bitfield. Example, attach an event probe on openat system call and print name of the file that will be opened: echo "e:esys/eopen syscalls/sys_enter_openat file=\$filename:string" >> dynamic_events A new dynamic event is created in events/esys/eopen/ directory. It can be deleted with: echo "-:esys/eopen" >> dynamic_events Filters, triggers and histograms can be attached to the new event, it can be matched in synthetic events. There is one limitation - an event probe can not be attached to kprobe, uprobe or another event probe. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210812145805.2292326-1-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210819152825.142428383@goodmis.org Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Have dynamic events have a ref counter

2021-08-18T22:13:47Z

As dynamic events are not created by modules, if something is attached to one, calling "try_module_get()" on its "mod" field, is not going to keep the dynamic event from going away. Since dynamic events do not need the "mod" pointer of the event structure, make a union out of it in order to save memory (there's one structure for each of the thousand+ events in the kernel), and have any event with the DYNAMIC flag set to use a ref counter instead. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20210813004448.51c7de69ce432d338f4d226b@kernel.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817035027.174869074@goodmis.org Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add DYNAMIC flag for dynamic events

2021-08-18T22:10:32Z

To differentiate between static and dynamic events, add a new flag DYNAMIC to the event flags that all dynamic events have set. This will allow to differentiate when attaching to a dynamic event from a static event. Static events have a mod pointer that references the module they were created in (or NULL for core kernel). This can be incremented when the event has something attached to it. But there exists no such mechanism for dynamic events. This is dangerous as the dynamic events may now disappear without the "attachment" knowing that it no longer exists. To enforce the dynamic flag, change dyn_event_add() to pass the event that is being created such that it can set the DYNAMIC flag of the event. This helps make sure that no location that creates a dynamic event misses setting this flag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20210813004448.51c7de69ce432d338f4d226b@kernel.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817035026.936958254@goodmis.org Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

bpf: Allow to specify user-provided bpf_cookie for BPF perf links

2021-08-16T22:45:07Z

Add ability for users to specify custom u64 value (bpf_cookie) when creating BPF link for perf_event-backed BPF programs (kprobe/uprobe, perf_event, tracepoints). This is useful for cases when the same BPF program is used for attaching and processing invocation of different tracepoints/kprobes/uprobes in a generic fashion, but such that each invocation is distinguished from each other (e.g., BPF program can look up additional information associated with a specific kernel function without having to rely on function IP lookups). This enables new use cases to be implemented simply and efficiently that previously were possible only through code generation (and thus multiple instances of almost identical BPF program) or compilation at runtime (BCC-style) on target hosts (even more expensive resource-wise). For uprobes it is not even possible in some cases to know function IP before hand (e.g., when attaching to shared library without PID filtering, in which case base load address is not known for a library). This is done by storing u64 bpf_cookie in struct bpf_prog_array_item, corresponding to each attached and run BPF program. Given cgroup BPF programs already use two 8-byte pointers for their needs and cgroup BPF programs don't have (yet?) support for bpf_cookie, reuse that space through union of cgroup_storage and new bpf_cookie field. Make it available to kprobe/tracepoint BPF programs through bpf_trace_run_ctx. This is set by BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY, used by kprobe/uprobe/tracepoint BPF program execution code, which luckily is now also split from BPF_PROG_RUN_ARRAY_CG. This run context will be utilized by a new BPF helper giving access to this user-provided cookie value from inside a BPF program. Generic perf_event BPF programs will access this value from perf_event itself through passed in BPF program context. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Yonghong Song Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-6-andrii@kernel.org

bpf: Implement minimal BPF perf link

2021-08-16T22:45:07Z

Introduce a new type of BPF link - BPF perf link. This brings perf_event-based BPF program attachments (perf_event, tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes) into the common BPF link infrastructure, allowing to list all active perf_event based attachments, auto-detaching BPF program from perf_event when link's FD is closed, get generic BPF link fdinfo/get_info functionality. BPF_LINK_CREATE command expects perf_event's FD as target_fd. No extra flags are currently supported. Force-detaching and atomic BPF program updates are not yet implemented, but with perf_event-based BPF links we now have common framework for this without the need to extend ioctl()-based perf_event interface. One interesting consideration is a new value for bpf_attach_type, which BPF_LINK_CREATE command expects. Generally, it's either 1-to-1 mapping from bpf_attach_type to bpf_prog_type, or many-to-1 mapping from a subset of bpf_attach_types to one bpf_prog_type (e.g., see BPF_PROG_TYPE_SK_SKB or BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK). In this case, though, we have three different program types (KPROBE, TRACEPOINT, PERF_EVENT) using the same perf_event-based mechanism, so it's many bpf_prog_types to one bpf_attach_type. I chose to define a single BPF_PERF_EVENT attach type for all of them and adjust link_create()'s logic for checking correspondence between attach type and program type. The alternative would be to define three new attach types (e.g., BPF_KPROBE, BPF_TRACEPOINT, and BPF_PERF_EVENT), but that seemed like unnecessary overkill and BPF_KPROBE will cause naming conflicts with BPF_KPROBE() macro, defined by libbpf. I chose to not do this to avoid unnecessary proliferation of bpf_attach_type enum values and not have to deal with naming conflicts. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Yonghong Song Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-5-andrii@kernel.org

tracing: Remove duplicate struct declaration in trace_events.h

2021-04-01T18:18:32Z

struct trace_array is declared twice. One has been declared at forward declaration. Remove the duplicate. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210330034056.2266969-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-23T18:08:18Z

Fix ~59 single-word typos in the tracing code comments, and fix the grammar in a handful of places. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322224546.GA1981273@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210323174935.GA4176821@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Pass buffer of event to trigger operations

2021-03-18T16:58:26Z

The ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() is going to be updated to extract the time stamp for the event without needing it to be set to have absolute values for all events. But to do so, it needs the buffer that the event is on as the buffer saves information for the event before it is committed to the buffer. If the trace buffer is disabled, a temporary buffer is used, and there's no access to this buffer from the current histogram triggers, even though it is passed to the trace event code. Pass the buffer that the event is on all the way down to the histogram triggers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.542448131@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix comment about the trace_event_call flags

2021-03-04T14:51:50Z

In the declaration of the struct trace_event_call, the flags has the bits defined in the comment above it. But these bits are also defined by the TRACE_EVENT_FL_* enums just above the declaration of the struct. As the comment about the flags in the struct has become stale and incorrect, just replace it with a reference to the TRACE_EVENT_FL_* enum above. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)